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I W. SOHWEITZER. NEWSPAPER HOLDER.

No. 508,769. Patented Nov. 14,1893.

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they can be applied and removed very easily D from end to end. At its lower end the stick maining newspapers or magazines on the UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

WILHELM SOHWEITZER, OF FREIBURG, GERMANY.

NEWSPAPER-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 508,769, dated November 14, 1893.

Application filed J this 17, I893.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILHELM SCHWEITZER, civil engineer, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Freiburg, Baden, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Newspaper-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved newspaper holder on which a number of newspapers, magazines and the like can be held conveniently, and on which and rapidly, and without disturbing the reholder.

The invention consists in the combination with a longitudinally grooved stick, of a ferrule at the lower end of the same, anotched turning cap on the upper end of the stick and a series of flat rods fitting in the grooves .in the stick.

The invention also consists in the construction and combination of parts and details which will be fully described hereinafter and finally pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l-is a side-view of my improved newspaper holder, parts being broken out. Fig. 2 is a longitudie nal sectional view of the same, parts being broken out. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 4 is a front and side View and section of a retaining rod, and Fig. 5 is a front and side view of the key.

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The stick A which is preferably circular in cross section is provided in its surface with a series of longitudinal grooves a extending A has a pin or stem A which projects into and is secured in'theend of a handle B, the upper end of which is provided with a ferrule B the upper part of which laps over the lower ends of the grooves a. A cylindrical cap 0 having a notch O in its lower edge, is mounted to turn on the upper end of the rod A. A screw D on which a nut E is mounted is held fixed in and projects from the upper groove.

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end of the rod A and said screw has its upper end shaped as a hook F by means of which notches e for receiving the prongs g of -a key G 'for turning it. Flat rods H having reduced ends h fit in the grooves a, of the stick A. A fiat rod H is placed lengthwise within the fold of a paper and the lower reduced end it of said rod isplaced into the lower end of .a groove a and the cap 0 is turned until its notch C registers with the upper end of said groove, and then the rod with the central fold of the paper is pressed into said groove, the upper end of the rod passing through the notch O. The cap is then turned axially and the nut E is drawn up tightly by means of the key for the purpose of locking the cap securely in'place. The upper end of the flat rod H is held in place by the overlapping bottom part of the cap 0 and the lower end by the overlapping part of the terruleB. In a like manner any number of papers can be held-,a rod being placed into each The papers can be applied and detached very easily and rapidly, and any one paper can be removed without disturbing the others. 7

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a newspaper holder, the combination, with a longitudinally grooved stick, of a fer- .rule at the lower end of the same, a screw pro WILHELM S OHWEITZER.

Witnesses:

F. X. ISELE KAUFMANN, HUBERT TENS. 

